1. People of the Lie

Since the 2012 election is likely to be the most important in my lifetime, I figured I'd try my hand at making my two cents available.  Since 500 or so Floridians determined the outcome of the 2000 election, who knows what influence we each have?

My core beliefs are 1) that the truth will set us free and 2) that self-deception at the individual or the collective level undermines the possibility of personal freedom and political liberty.  Larry P. Arnn's wonderful book, The Founders' Key, explains how bound up are those two principles: personal responsibility and political liberty.  To the extent that America embraces contemporary liberalism as it is starkly articulated Mr. Obama is the extent to which we engage in dangerous self-deception.

We are becoming People of the Lie. The lies are not intentional (self-deception seldom is) nor are they malicious.  Some of  the kindest, most well-meaning people I've known are liberal as was I.  Still, reality will assert its sovereignty in spite of our best intentions, and it can be cruel in so doing.  Every knee must eventually bend before it.

Knees are starting to bend under the weight of uncomfortable truths.  The longer we pretend that the burden bowing our backs doesn't exist, the harder will be that inevitable fall to our knees and the least among us will take the brunt of it.  As a Catholic Christian, I believe we (literally) can't afford the luxury of self-deception.  To do so is morally wrong.  The burden we feel is freedom and the responsibility for how we have exercised it... as individuals and as a people.